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Best Buy to Make Internet Price-Matching Policy Permanent

If you're going to buy a thing — any kind of thing, really — Amazon tends to be the first thought if you're someone that uses the Internet. The old guard when it comes to retailers, like Best Buy or Target, are last on the list to be checked.

Showrooming, however, is more popular than ever. Checking stuff out in a physical store and then buying online is all the rage. In an effort to fight back against the beast that is online retail, Best Buy revealed that it's making its Internet price-matching policy permanent, but there's a catch: The company's only matching prices with certain retailers.

Best Buy is opening the floodgates the tiniest bit. It has a history of matching prices during the winter holidays, but it's also been vehemently dismissive of the entire "showrooming" thing since it first cropped up. Even now Best Buy is only going to match certain online retailers, though it's certainly covered the major ones.

Why Circuit City is still included is puzzling, but the list might see an update before the policy goes into effect on March 3. Still, we've got Newegg, Amazon, TigerDirect, and Walmart on there. What more could you need?

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